Online activists Anonymous are targeting the European Parliament and supporters of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which critics say would curtail freedom of expression and encourage surveillance by service providers.

Online activists Anonymous are targeting the European Parliament and supporters of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which critics say would curtail freedom of expression and encourage surveillance by service providers.

The Windows 8 x86 public beta will be released in late February, however the ARM version’s release date is very much up in the air. News.com is now reporting via unnamed sources that the ARM port is now stable enough for a developer’s preview, allowing developers to see it as soon as February.

In a remarkable resignation statement the man responsible for the EU’s ACTA negotiations has resigned, blasting the document as secretive and un-democratic.

Most PS3 Slims only come with a tiny hard drive, with many games requiring installs and updates, and you probably having loads of media purchased from the Sony store saved on your hard-disk this won’t last long. Fortunately it’s really easy to change at home.

I’m sure you remember in this post I spoke about being careful with what you install. Well this post shows you the common ways that Installers try and trick you into installing their rubbish and how to get round them:

You may (or may not) have noticed that Google have changed it’s privacy policy, so what right? Not so much this time. Google has always played it fast and loose with privacy, however this time they’ve gone a step too far. We analyze how likely this is to affect you:

Since the release of the information that Nokia Lumia 900 will be sold to some carriers for $99.99, HTC have announced that they will be releasing their Windows Phone device the Titan II on the same day.

Remember the Windows Phone challenge at CES? Well if not what happened was Microsoft set up the ultimate challenge, a $100 bet that your phone current phone is slower than Windows Phone. If you beat Windows phone, you got $100, if you lost, you got a free Windows Phone. Well the results are in:

This may sound mad, but it’s true, Apple is indeed worth more than the entire country of Greece. With a closing share price of $429 on the 19th of January, and a market cap of $400 billion (source) with both numbers continually on the rise, it’s a record high for a technology company.
Data from Occasional Gamer suggest that while Nokia’s Windows Phone range has only been available for a few months, N0kia already has the Lion’s share of purchased handsets with Microsoft’s OS.

President Obama will be making his annual state of union address later today. In preparation for the event the White House Website will be showcasing an enhanced version of the State of Union address followed by a discussion panel until the speech is completed. Various shots in the video show Windows XP on computers there.

Even more file hosting sites including Fileserve and Filesonic who have converted their services into file storage only services since MegaUpload had several members of it’s team arrested.
Finally owners of Apple’s A5 chip devices have an untethered jailbreak solution…as long as they have a mac.

The long awaited Sony PS Vita launched in it’s home country of Japan on December 17th 2011. The first two days of sale were excellent boasting 321,000 units in that period. However sales have taken a nose dive reportedly reducing by 75%.
Thursday’s shutdown of file sharing site megaupload.com on piracy charges weren’t the only plans of US officials. The FBI working with New Zealand Police also raided a mansion belonging to the site’s owner Kim Dotcom (AKA Kim Schmitz).
It’s a strange phenomenon where people automatically make connections based on a familiar image. Take this example: